si p'jf. (t'ae/tj i ‘ l '\fJ VA YJjJ A34-Lancasftr Fanning, Saturday, July 12,1986 Major Dairy Sales And Dispersals Nationwide Reports from two sales for the week of July 4 to 9 showed 105 head averaging $1,942.50. These sales were held in Washington and New York. The top prices at the sales were $7,600 and $5,950. Here is a brief look at the results of these sales. HOLSTEIN The SECOND GENESEE COUNTRY BREEDERS IN VITATIONAL SALE, held in New York, averaged $1,866 on 79 head. The highest bid of the day was $7,600 on a Valiant daughter. This 5-year-old is a fourth generation to produce over 20,000 pounds of milk and is listed in the top 2,000 cows in the country for production. During her current lactation, at 155 days, this Excellent cow has produced 17,995 pounds of milk and 780 pounds of fat. Second in the bidding, with a price of $7,000, was a choice of bull calves in a flush to Marshfield Elevation Tony. His dam classified VG-89 and her six dams were classified Excellent. Her best record to date was 21,580 pounds of milk and 771 pounds of fat. A female choice of calves from the same flush secured the third high bid of the day, $5,200. NATIONAL DAIRY COW SALE INDEX © 1986 Lancaster Farming Newspaper This sale index can help dairymen place a value on the dairy cows on their own herds. Breed organization sales and private dispersal sales reported in Lancaster Fanning are included in the dollar averages. Year to date Nation Pennsylvania Four previous weeks Nation Four previous weeks +/-yeartodate: Year to date Nation Pennsylvania Four previous weeks Nation Four previous weeks +/-year to date; 2293 higher We're Buying Quality! Farmer’s Cheese Co-Op Now Offers Premiums For Extra Quality Milk. We Want The Best Quality Milk Because Quite Simply, The Best Quality Milk Makes The Best Quality Cheese. With the use of analytical and computer technology, we will pay you (based on the cheese and cream market) what a hundred pounds of your milk will yield in cheese and cream. Farmer’s Cheese Co-Op will be paying its farmers on a bi-monthly basis, plus offering a group hospital insurance. Qualify MUk Coals Mora But Mo Think It's Morth It If you want more for your milk - CALL (412) 946-8729 'i Ask For Ron or Jack Farmer's Cheese Co-Op Ass'n. P.O. Box 198, New Wilmington, PA 16142 ( 412) 946-8729 William Kent was the auctioneer for the day, and the sale was managed by the Genesee Country Breeders The WASHINGTON STATE SALE averaged $2,019 on 26 head. Topping the sale was a 3-year-old by Lime Hollow Elevation Mars. She sold for $5,950 and won the State 2-year-old Futurity the day before. She is classified VG-86 and produced over 20,000 as a junior 2- year old. Her next three dams are Very Good and Excellent. She is bred to Tradition to calve in December. Second in the sale was a just fresh Valiant daughter with a price of $3,600. She is out of a Very Good Lime Hollow Elevation Mars daughter who has records up to 23,000 pounds of milk. Third in the bidding with a price of $3,300 was bred heifer sired by Glendell. Her dam, an Excellent out of Locust Glen, has records up to 32,000 pounds of milk and 1,221 pounds of fat. This heifer will calve this month with a Chief Mark calf. The sale was managed by the Nahomish Holstein Club and the Washington State Holstein Association. Ray Nelson was the auctioneer. Ayrshire Brown Guernsey Jersey Swiss 721 940 961 949 1027 - 556 1332 1597 higher 87 higher Holstein Red and Milking White Shorthorn 2048 2837 672 1292 2837 922 4341 2558 1036 Get Into Farming Now (Continued from Page Al) cream that has been so successful that they want to increase their expenditures with us this year.” While the national beef associations have called for an investigation of the Futures Market, Klechner said he didn’t sense that the members of the American Farm Bureau really want to do away with the Futures Market. “I think the average farmer thinks it’s okay to in vestigate possible fraud. But I think he should look at the Futures Market in possible related forward contracting. Maybe even better would be the use ot options as production and raises and markets related to the Futures Market,” he about 18,000 hogs. He is especially said. “I personally have not done interested in improving net farm much a in the way of forward con- , income and works for Expanded tracting. But I’m looking closely at Exports of U.S. Farm Com it right now. And we’ll need to modities. consider hedging part of our hog Eckel is a full-time farmer m production for next year.” Lackawanna county in partnership Klechner was elected president with his father and brother, of the American Farm Bureau on Eckel’s farming operation consists January 16, 1986, after serving 10 of more than a thousand acres. He years as president of the lowa is especially successful with a Farm Bureau Federation. He green wrap tomato production farms 550 acres in lowa, program and marketing operation, specializing in com and sovfv>an to avoid m< penetratioi pump housi
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